FTP and access to SSL mail accounts very slow

I have a Dell Latitude e6430 laptop - Win7 64bit as well as Ubunto 14.04. 64bit. With strato.de I have my own web page and also my own pop3 mail account - with Ubuntu 12 everything was working great - both gftp and Evolution were working fast. Around 6 weeks ago our Telekom router was updated to 50mb (nice) and around the same time I updated to 14:04 - since then Evolution takes 30 seconds to fetch mail and gftp takes about the same to open my web site.

if I use Filezilla then it times out - I guess gftp has a longer timeout tolerance. If I use Thunderbird then it also takes the same slow speed. All other web activities are normal - I even have a vpn tunnel to the UK which works fine. I also created a second profile in Evolution to use imap - also very bad.

Outlook on my Win7 system takes 2 seconds to fetch - WS-ftp takes less that a second to open up - I doubt the the new router then...

I have tried logging on as guest and also have used a backup account but there is no difference. I am wondering if my files have a permissions issue.

[Edit] - I have just ran WS-ftp from the Win7 partion in Ubuntu (I guess Wine executes it) and it opened immediately. It is only the Ubuntu programs which are being throttled.

Any ideas?